May 16, 2026; Montreal, Quebec, CAN; View of a Buffalo Sabres logo on a jersey worn by a member of the team during warm-up before the game against the Montreal Canadiens in game six of the second round of the 2026 Stanley Cup Playoffs at Bell Centre. Mandatory Credit: David Kirouac-Imagn Images
It’s time once again for the hotly-debated, somewhat-maligned, widely-enjoyed and acridly-acrimonious ‘Top 25 Under 25’ where we all vote to rank the best players in the wider Buffalo Sabres organization under the age of 25.
We are trying out a new voting platform so please drop us any feedback here on how this goes. We’ll keep this open for a week, so please go ahead and do this sooner than later.
CLICK HERE TO VOTE (Deadline – EOD Sunday 8/2)
Here is the full list of players under the age of 25 in the Buffalo Sabres system.
| Player | Age | Team |
| David Bedkowski (D) | 19 | Ottawa 67’s (OHL) |
| Zach Benson (LW) | 21 | Buffalo Sabres (NHL) |
| Simon-Pier Brunet (D) | 20 | Merrimack College (NCAA) |
| Josh Doan (RW) | 24 | Buffalo Sabres (NHL) |
| Dylan Dumont (RW) | 17 | Drummondville Voltigeurs (QMJHL) |
| Riley Fiddler-Schultz (C/LW) | 24 | Rochester Americans (AHL) |
| Zac Funk (LW/RW) | 23 | Rochester Americans (AHL) |
| Patrick Geary (D) | 22 | Michigan State Univ. (NCAA) |
| Konsta Helenius (C/RW) | 20 | Buffalo Sabres (NHL) |
| Ryan Johnson (D) | 24 | Rochester Americans (AHL) |
| Sean Keohane (D) | 21 | Harvard Univ. (NCAA) |
| Adam Kleber (D) | 20 | Univ. of Minnesota-Duluth (NCAA) |
| Vsevolod Komarov (D) | 22 | Rochester Americans (AHL) |
| Tyson Kozak (C) | 23 | Buffalo Sabres (NHL) |
| Matous Jan Kucharcik (C/LW) | 19 | Miami Univ. (Ohio) (NCAA) |
| Jiri Kulich (C) | 22 | Buffalo Sabres (NHL) |
| Noah Laberge (D) | 19 | Northeastern Univ. (NCAA) |
| Topias Leinonen (G) | 22 | Rochester Americans (AHL) |
| Gavin McCarthy (D) | 21 | Boston University (NCAA) |
| Samuel Meloche (G) | 19 | Saint John Sea Dogs (QMJHL) |
| Ilia Morozov (C) | 17 | Miami Univ. (Ohio) (NCAA) |
| Radim Mrtka (D) | 19 | Rochester Americans (AHL) |
| Olivers Murnieks (C) | 17 | Saint John Sea Dogs (QMJHL) |
| Melvin Novotny (LW/RW) | 19 | Univ. of Massachusetts (NCAA) |
| Luke Osburn (D) | 19 | Univ. of Wisconsin (NCAA) |
| Noah Östlund (C/LW) | 22 | Buffalo Sabres (NHL) |
| Norwin Panocha (D) | 21 | Iserlohn Roosters (DEL) |
| Prokhor Poltapov (RW/LW) | 23 | CSKA Moskva (KHL) |
| Owen Power (D) | 23 | Buffalo Sabres (NHL) |
| Yevgeni Prokhorov (G) | 19 | Dinamo Minsk (KHL) |
| Jack Quinn (RW) | 24 | Buffalo Sabres (NHL) |
| Scott Ratzlaff (G) | 21 | Rochester Americans (AHL) |
| Jake Richard (RW/LW) | 21 | Buffalo Sabres (NHL) |
| Ryan Rucinski (C/RW) | 19 | Ohio State Univ. (NCAA) |
| Daxon Rudolph (D) | 18 | Univ. of Denver (NCAA) |
| Stiven Sardaryan (RW/LW) | 23 | Michigan Tech (NCAA) |
| Ashton Schultz (C/RW) | 19 | Univ. of North Dakota (NCAA) |
| Maxim Strbak (D) | 21 | Rochester Americans (AHL) |
| Domán Kristóf Szongoth (C) | 18 | KooKoo U20 (U20 SM-sarja) |
| Vasily Zelenov (RW/LW) | 20 | Univ. of Wisconsin (NCAA) |
| Olen Zellweger (D) | 22 | Buffalo Sabres (NHL) |
| Brodie Ziemer (RW/LW) | 20 | Univ. of Minnesota (NCAA) |
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